New Restaurant in River Bend

The other night Mr. Molly and I tried a new restaurant. We went to Curry Corner on Carrollton Avenue. We were very pleased. There were only 3 or 4 entrees offered, but the prices were reasonable and the food was every bit as good as Nirvana - and without the attitude.

Happy Independence Day

I was going to use today's post to discuss the Kennedy v. Louisiana decision. However I have reconsidered. I will save that for another day. Instead I would like to encourage both my readers to reflect on freedom.

Freedom does not come cheap. Many people who are much braver than I have paid the ultimate price to preserve the liberty that we enjoy here in America. Rather than being grateful for their sacrifices, we, as a society, revere politicians who are not proud to be Americans. In fact, patriotism is so out of fashion that our next president and commander in chief may be someone who does not take pride in America. Think about this in November. FREEDOM IS NOT FOR SISSIES.

Boumediene v. Bush - The Molly Solution

To say the least, I am disappointed with this decision. As soon as I can figure out how, I will post links to the opinion itself and to any articles I can find which discuss this opinion. I do not believe that the United States Constitution affords a foreign citizen, an enemy combatant, no less, who is not being held on U.S. soil, the right to a habeus corpus hearing.

I intend to discuss this in depth later, but I would like to give the first ever Molly Goes Ninja Freedom Is Not for Sissies award to Justice Scalia.

Finally, before I go back to work I would like to propose a simple solution to the problem that this case has created: Take no prisoners. Shoot 'em or hang 'em high, but take no prisoners.

UPDATE:

Here is the link to this decision:

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/06-1195.pdf

Here is what Justice Scalia had to say in his dissenting opinion:

…[T]oday it is not just the military that the Court elbows aside. A mere two Terms ago in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), when the Court held (quite amazingly) that the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 had not stripped habeas jurisdiction over Guantanamo petitioners’ claims, four Members of today’s five-Justice majority joined an opinion saying the following:

“Nothing prevents the President from returning to Congress to seek the authority [for trial by military commission] he believes necessary.

“Where, as here, no emergency prevents consultation with Congress, judicial insistence upon that con¬sultation does not weaken our Nation’s ability to deal with danger. To the contrary, that insistence strengthens the Nation’s ability to determine — through democratic means— how best to do so. The Constitution places its faith in those democratic means.” Id., at 636 (BREYER, J., concurring).

Turns out they were just kidding. For in response, Congress, at the President’s request, quickly enacted the Military Commissions Act, emphatically reasserting that it did not want these prisoners filing habeas petitions.(emphasis added)

Montreal

I went to Montreal over Memorial Day weekend. my friend and I had a marvelous time. We stayed at the Auberge de la Fontaine, and we loved it. We loved waking to the smell of freshly baked croissants in the morning. The inn is located on the third largest park in Montreal and we took a nice leisurely walk on Saturday morning after breakfast. The temperature was about 73 degrees during the day and very little humidity. After a bit of shopping, I have to admit that I am really lame because I went back to the inn, opened the windows and napped in the cool breeze. When I woke up, we got dressed and went to dinner at Cafe Cherrier. Will have to eat my way through Montral again.

Memorial Day Weekend

Summer is finally upon us and I am going for a girl's weekend with a friend to Montreal. Her significant other is a vegetarian, so I see a steak in my future....

For both of the readers of this blog: If you are sticking around NOLA and are wondering what to do this weekend, I have a few suggestions. Bayou Bugaloo and Greek Festival. Or you can buy Darius Rucker's new album.

Darius Rucker of Hootie and the Blowfish has a new country album out. Yes, that is right, country. I heard the first single off of it yesterday and really liked it. It's called "Don't think I don't" Check it out.

Security District Legislation

I have heard that the board of the neighborhood group that has been most active in drafting this legislation has voted unanimously (my source tells me that the vote was actually unanimous, as most of us understand the word)to ask Senator Gray to discontinue pursuing this legislation. If I hear anything else, I will post.

At any rate, it looks like I can blog about other things for a while. Like maybe packing peanuts: mere nuisance or spawn of the devil...

Here is my proposal if such taxing district does, in the future, get enacted:

Use the money to hire a company like Blackwater to clean house. Just a thought.

Love and kisses,

Molly

Latest Draft of Improvement District Legislation

The latest draft of the West Carrollton Improvement District Legislation is out.

I have concluded that I made a giant mistake when I voted for Cheryl Gray. I will most likely be voting for her opponent next time around.

The drafters of this legislation agreed to work with a represenative from Palmer Park on subsequent drafts of the legislation. However, they did not return her calls. The Pensiontown Neighborhood Association, who has had three seats on the board of this district since the legislation was first drafted had its first meeting last night.

What this suggests to me is that they want to tax us, but they really do not give a rip about what anyone else in the neighborhood thinks, as long as they can make us pay the tax. I can only assume that Ms. Gray feels the same way, or else she would have postponed drafting this legislation until after the Pensiontown Neighborhood Association had actually been in existence and accomplished something.

Further, the new draft provides that the district can purchase property. What business does a security/improvement district have buying property?

I encourage anyone who has the same concerns that I have to contact Ms. Gray and make those concerns known.